Edge coloring graphs with large minimum degree
Abstract
Let be a simple graph with maximum degree . A subgraph of is overfull if . Chetwynd and Hilton in 1985 conjectured that a graph with has chromatic index if and only if contains no overfull subgraph. The 1-factorization conjecture is a special case of this overfull conjecture, which states that for even , every regular -vertex graph with degree at least about has a 1-factorization and was confirmed for large graphs in 2014. Supporting the overfull conjecture as well as generalizing the 1-factorization conjecture in an asymptotic way, in this paper, we show that for any given , there exists a positive integer such that the following statement holds: if is a graph on vertices with minimum degree at least , then has chromatic index if and only if contains no overfull subgraph.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.05286,
title = {Edge coloring graphs with large minimum degree},
author = {Michael J. Plantholt and Songling Shan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05286},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Fixed some typos and revised Lemmas 2.7, 2.11, and 2.12. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2104.06253